“To exclude him of a coat of arms is really stripping him of an honour and it’s a huge insult,” Samantha Markle told The Sun.

The tradition would have entitled Meghan to use her father’s coat of arms, as would her siblings.

According to The Daily Mail, the Queen decided to forgo the process of bestowing a coat of arms for Meghan’s father because it would be too “complicated,” requiring him to prove he has an ancestor who was a British subject.

In lieu of her father receiving a coat of arms, Meghan herself will receive one, which will not apply to any of her American family members.